Song of the day, Oct 31, 2005

Song: Tere Bin Nahin Lagda listen
Artist: Partners in Rhyme feat Nustrat Fateh Ali Khan
Album: Bend it Like Beckham

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Song of the day, Oct 30, 2005

Song: Echoes
Artist: Pink Floyd
Album: Meddle


Check this out ... really cool website
http://www.pinkfloyd.co.uk/echoes/

You can listen to the song on the above website too. There are even music videos on the site!!!

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Diwali night

Junta after the party



Anima's antakshari team



Smython's team



Anima's dancing so hard, my cam couldn't keep up.



Yes, she does it!





Vandi cribbing. Pic came out nice, man.



Kristen finally smiles after the non-invite to Garcias :-)







Just wenting for it.



Hair color, frizz, conditioner, curler, straightener all show smython :-)



Getting senti after the event.



Done!

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(Second) Song of the day, Oct 29, 2005

The previous post had a song with a great start. I am tempted to post the following song -- one of the best finales I have ever heard-- though most junta would have heard this song before.

Song: Mettupodu (listen) (also on napster)
Singer: S P Balasubramiam (who else) and Kadri Gopalnath (sax)
Album: Duet
Composer: A R Rahman

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Song of the day, Oct 29, 2005

Song: Suvvi Suvvi listen
Singers: S P Balasubramaniam and S Janaki
Album: Swathi Muthyam
Composer: Ilayaraja

Song: Lali Lali listen
Singer: P Susheela
Album: Swathi Muthyam
Composer: Ilayaraja

If you want an intro to telugu film music these are the songs you MUST listen to. SPB is god -- he is simply brilliant in Suvvi Suvvi. The prelude to this song is really cool. Lali Lali is a lullaby sung to perfection. The lyrics for both the songs are simply beautiful. The movie itself is probably one of kamal hassan's and radhika's best performances.

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Song of the Day, Oct 28, 2005

Song: Please Forgive Me (lyrics)
Artist: David Gray
Album: White Ladder

Smita first introduced me to this song recently ... this one really grows on you

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Download songs for 10 cents...

This line is to convince you dk's that the following is not an ob spam

I don't know what the going rate is for mp3's these days, but mp3search.ru lets you download songs for only $0.10. But I haven't tried this out myself: I don't know whether it's even fully legal in the first place, and I don't know all the fine print, so somebody give it a shot and put fundaes ;-). The music collection is pretty extensive, seems to have listings for all popular bands, and advertises songs at 192 kbps.

If the site's search engine cups, you can always fall back on google
(e.g.: site:www.mp3search.ru "red hot chilli peppers")

-Vivek

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Song of the Day, Oct 27, 2005

Song: Act III, Canzonetta Sul'aria
Album: Le Nozze di Figaro (Marriage of Figaro)
Composer: Mozart

" ... I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singin' about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I like to think they were singin' about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared, higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away. And for the briefest of moments, every last man at Shawshank felt free. ... "
- Red, Shawshank Redemption

Some other beautiful pieces from this opera ...

Song: Act III, Dove Sono
Album: Le Nozze di Figaro (Marriage of Figaro)
Composer: Mozart

Song: Overture
Album: Le Nozze di Figaro (Marriage of Figaro)
Composer: Mozart

Listen from (00:56) of the following piece ... sounds very familiar doesn't it ...

Song: Act III, Crudel! Perche Finora
Album: Le Nozze di Figaro (Marriage of Figaro)
Composer: Mozart

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Song of the Day, Oct 26, 2005

Song: Jagaddhodharana (listen)
Artist: Subbulakshmi M S
Composer: Purandara Dasa

I remember someone saying that they have not heard this song ... so ...

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Song of the Day, Oct 25, 2005

Song: Vois Sur Ton Chemin (Look to your path) (napster)
Movie: Les Choristes (The Chorus)

This french song was nominated for the oscars in 2005. We need to get this movie ...

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Song of the day, Oct 24, 2005

Song: Navigate the Seas of the Sun napster
Album: Tyranny of Souls
Artist: Bruce Dickinson

Bruce Dickinson is the lead singer of Iron Maiden (yes! 'fear of the dark' ...).
" ... if einstein is throwing dice,
and god he doesn't mind the chances ..."

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Classical music intro

Since I bulbed so majorly in the concert, I search for an intro site. This seems interesting:

http://www.classicalarchives.com/appreciate.html

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Song of the day, Oct 23, 2005

Song: Photograph napster
Singer: Jamie Cullum
Album: Catching Tales

Jamie Cullum is the latest jazz piano sensation from the united kingdom. His previous album 'Twentysomething' has a jazz rendition of a variety of songs including those by jimi hendrix(the wind cries mary), film soundtracks(singing in the rain) and hip hop (frontin').

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Song of the Day, Oct 22, 2005

Song: Jane Kya Sochkar listen
Singer: Kishore Kumar
Album: Kinara
Composer: R D Burman
Lyrics: Gulzar lyrics

I never heard this song till recently (Naam Gum Jayega was the only song I had heard from this film). I liked the lyrics of this song ...

" Do Ghadi Jeene Ki Mohalat To Mili Hai Sabko
Tum Bhi Mil Jaao Ghadi Bhar To Ye Gam Hota Hai
Is Ghadi Ka Safar Nahin Guzra"
(these lines .. i get the idea but do not understand completely)

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Song of the Day, Oct 21, 2005

Song: Pal listen
Singer: Strings (feat. Sagarika)
Album: Dhaani

Though this song is featured in Strings' latest album, this song was composed a few years ago when Strings and Sagarika jammed together for the Channel V program Jammin'. The guitars are very typical of Bilal Maqsood, but the violins add a new dimension to the track.

Also checkout 'Najanay Kyun' from the same album.

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Song of the Day, Oct 20, 2005

Song: Children (napster)
Album: Dreamland
Artist: Robert Miles

This is a fast instrumental number which was the chartbusting dance number of the 90s. A number of desi film songs have been copied off songs from this album.

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Song of the Day, Oct 19, 2005

Song: Humen Tumse Pyaar Kitna listen
Singer: Kishore Kumar
Album: Kudrat
Composer: R D Burman

Sorry for posting a well known song. But this is my favourite Burman-Kishore-da song.

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Song of the day, Oct 18, 2005

Song: Naam Adaa Likhna listen
Singers: Shreya Goshal, Shaan
Album: Yahaan
Composer: Shantanu Moitra

Shantanu Moitra also composed music for Parineeta. Simple song, well sung.

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Song of the day, Oct 17, 2005

Song: I'd love to change the world (napster)
Group: Ten Years After
Album: Now


Listen to the lyrics ... i guess most of us are in the same dilemma.

This is TYA's only hit single.

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Song of the day, Oct 16, 2005

Song: Allah ke Bandeh listen
Album: Waisa Bhi Hota Hai (Part II)
Singer: Kailash Kher

This is the song which catapulted Kailash Kher from rags to fame. His voice makes the song sound really good.

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Song of the day, Oct 15, 2005

Song: Kehte Hai Jisko Mohabbat Wo Ho Tum listen
Singer: Kavitha Krishnamurthy, Abhijeeth
Album: Grahan
Music Director: Karthik Raja

Dont know how many of you even know that there was such a hindi movie. The movie never released. But the music got accolades.

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(Second) Song of the day, Oct 14, 2005

A more serious post for the day ...

Song: (Don't fear) The Reaper (napster) (lyrics)
Album: Don't Fear the Reaper: The best of Blue Oyster Cult
Group: Blue Oyster Cult

Love the way they sing it ... one might think they are singing about a beautiful day (i have posted a link to the lyrics if you junta want to know what they really are singing about)

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Song of the day, Oct 14, 2005

This one i saw coming ever since I promised i'll start the song of the day ...

Song: Dragostea Din Tei (napster, in fact the whole web is buzzing with this song!!!)
Album: ??
Singer/Group: O-zone (and Haiducii)

Yes that's true ... this song is buzzing all over the web ever since this dude Gary Brolsma " ... lip-synced the song energetically on his webcam ...". I will let you guys go to the wikipedia link for more details. (This is a link to the original lip-sync video. Seems this is one of the most viewed videos on the web.)

Else, the song is nice dance number. I asked Liviu - the lyrics mean absolutely nothing!

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(Second) Song of the day, Oct 13, 2005

Starter's enthu i guess. But more so because a freind of mine told me about this song and on second hearing it is quite good.

Song: Katril Varum Geethame listen
Album: Oru Naal oru Kanavu
Composer: Ilayaraja

The song has a very simple melody (heard it is kalyani raagam) and lyrics and in its simplicity lies all its beauty. The one thing that I do not like about the song is that the female singers are too high pitched for this slow song. (either that or my screwed up headphones are making it sound bad) And the hindi accent is perceptible in many parts of the song. Would have liked it much more if tamil singers had sung it.

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Song of the day, Oct 13, 2005

Song: Death and the Maiden (on napster)
Composer: Schubert (string quartet)

I heard this classical piece only a couple of days back when I saw the Roman Planski movie of the same name. The movie is about a girl (sigourney weaver) meets a doctor (ben kingsley) who had tortured her in the past. The music piece makes a substantial appearance in the movie -- specifically, the doctor plays this to "soothe" the tortured girl. This composition beautifully brings out this irony. The movie (which is an adaptation of a play) is a must see. Death and the Maiden is a must hear.

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Song of the Day, Oct 12, 2005

This is the first post in the "Song of the Day" series. I have surprised myself this time --

Song: "Ulti Hogain Sab Tadbiren" listen

Singer: Begum Akhtar
Album: Best of Begum Akhtar

Fundaes: I know very little here. Others might be able to put better fundaes. Begum Akhtar (1914-1974) -- Mallika-e-Ghazal -- is a well known ghazal singer. She was awarded the Padmabhushan posthumously.

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